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Upcoming Various Artists EP on 777 Recordings!

After the Lost Tapes, the Found Tapes and the Hidden Tapes, Electronic Emergencies releases the Closet Tapes - a compilation of queer electronic music on pink vinyl. Spacemaker and Leather E have rounded up an unorthodox and fierce combination of queer legends, contemporary queer heroes and future queer stars. These include Andy Butler from Hercules & Love Affair, Eddy De Clercq, Bezier from the Honey Soundsystem and Hard Ton together with our own Popsimonova. We are proud to be queer and this is what we love.

Chopped and bemused electronics from Italian beat randomiser, Herva.. more soon!

Lucifer & Lust is a 10-inch mini album by Dmitry Distant, showcasing the diversity of his talent. The 6 tracks by the Russian-born artist who currently resides in Latvia reflect the atmosphere of the Baltic and the mystic sides of electronic music. Showing where his devotion lies, Dmitry experiments on the verge of techno, wave and industrial. On this mini album, he grasps our attention with minimalistic trance-like rhythms covered in fluctuating painful melodies, using wonderful analogue sounds and exotic instruments such as the electric violin.

AMC's hit series 'Halt And Catch Fire' captures the rise of the PC-era during the early 80s and the technology revolution. Nominated by Vox as the best show in 2016, it's a potent look back at the earliest days of the internet that also glimpsed, through some hazy curtain, the world we live in right now.' Acclaimed for its exceptional soundtrack by former Tangerine Dream musician and award winning composer, Paul Haslinger has created a period-appropriate synth score that admirably sets the mood and tone of the bygone era. Revisiting his time in the pioneering electronic band during the mid-80s, the Austrian composer writes with a uniquely knowledgeable yet less overtly nostalgic ear that keeps the show's current audience in mind. Acknowledging the time in which the series itself has been created alongside when the show is set, Haslinger's bold and innovative scores have seen his Hollywood career escalate over the last two decades. The man behind the music for Blow, Resident Evil and Death Race has become one of the industry's most sought after composers.

AMC's hit series 'Halt And Catch Fire' captures the rise of the PC-era during the early 80s and the technology revolution. Nominated by Vox as the best show in 2016, it's a potent look back at the earliest days of the internet that also glimpsed, through some hazy curtain, the world we live in right now.' Acclaimed for its exceptional soundtrack by former Tangerine Dream musician and award winning composer, Paul Haslinger has created a period-appropriate synth score that admirably sets the mood and tone of the bygone era. Revisiting his time in the pioneering electronic band during the mid-80s, the Austrian composer writes with a uniquely knowledgeable yet less overtly nostalgic ear that keeps the show's current audience in mind. Acknowledging the time in which the series itself has been created alongside when the show is set, Haslinger's bold and innovative scores have seen his Hollywood career escalate over the last two decades. The man behind the music for Blow, Resident Evil and Death Race has become one of the industry's most sought after composers.

Deconstructed EBM from the Nous affiliate Spoiled Drama kicks off the new Science Fiction compilation - 10 tracks of crazed machine grooves further diversifying the Science Fiction's exploration into synthetics. The opener driven simply by an obnoxiously saturated digital drum machine and a mechanical body music bass loop simultaneously hints to late 80s darkside Chicago roots with hard flanged hi-hats and a detuned string machine.

Number 4 of this 4 piece exclusive 12-inch series! All tracks are specially produced for Steffi's Fabric 94 mix cd!

Exciting remix project of Canadian/French duo Hey Mother Death's track Deranged My Love. Connecting artists from across genres, each with their own unique take on the original. MR TC, Donald Dust, Sweet Dieter and premier track from Jacuzzi General

Vices is the first ever record from Separation Anxiety, continuing the Horo quest to expose the untouched underbelly of electronic music. Separation Anxiety mixes gothic tinged ambience with metallic beats and contained distortion.
Early support from Samuel Kerridge, Ancestral Voices, Pact Infernal, Grebenstein, Sam KDC.

One dead marine through the hatch
Scratch and scrape this Heavenly body
Every inch of winning skin
There's junk in honey's sack again
Drink to me my Heavenly body
Scratch, scrape, scratch this winning skin
Hack hack hack hack this heavenly body
Yack yack yack yack yack goes junk-face
There's garbage in honey's sack again'

Sexazoid keep using his pheromones to triggers social response in members of his species. So follow the dog walker in to the metal chamber now dripping with zoid sweat. Ace, dusky, metallic house sleaze!

Loopy, straight to the point techno. Split Image, debut for the first release of New Dimensions - a label style who's style is akin to the likes of Foundation Sound Works.... amongst others! TIP!

The MATHEMATICS reissue campaign continues with a long out-of-print and sought-after EP from JAMAL MOSS aka
HIEROGLYPHIC BEING's I.B.M. alias. "MY LIFE AS A SKINNY PUPPY" is 6 tracks of industrial grade techno, pressed up on limited color vinyl 15 years after the original release!

Funky Hardtehcno offering tunes at 147, 143 et 135 BPM. Funky IXY flavour melted to the Maskk electro techno skillz.

Electro Acid tekno, Classic and well done style. Enjoy !

Sebastian, Simon and Ixy joined their forces to create a new studio based on the original mobile spiral studio... From this studio will come many tunes in the future.Here is the first complete batch. You with easily recognize each style : Sebastian and his Dub spirit of the grooves, Crystal and his vacuum breakbeat attack and Ixy with her Cat-funk Groove... Enjoy !

The bags were dragged from field to stage, the gear representing the modern age, a handful of snippets were committed to tape, and the speakers and punters all stood agape. Performers were gobsmacked as ravers alike, the hi viz clad piggies said 'go on, on yer bike', so off we all went to jam this again, and here's the results..

'Star Of Love' is the much anticipated debut album from the purveyors of boundary shattering electro Crystal Fighters, whose music melds Animal Collective toned delicacy with Soulwax inspired rave

To feel the future is to feel the fall into time.

For the fourth instalment in Tresor's 'Kern' mix series, DJ Stingray (Urban Tribe/Drexciya) presents a device for decoding time in all directions, a sonic prism that refracts our senses into auxiliary components of a total future-rush.

With a far-reaching selection that has been worked into his own unique form, DJ Stingray wraps our vertigo around a gritty pneumatic bump with high-velocity swing. His mixing style, prepared for hostile engagements as it is, throttles techno into counter-gravity forces. Wading through a specialised cross-section of Detroit's own dance-floor contagions as well as the contaminated feedback signals from across the global aqua plains, the mix can be summed up in just one word: hectic.

Raw, caustic, synthetic rhythm-code pumps frenzy itself through a cascading geothermal fog. Never giving away the cryptographic keys, DJ Stingray works you harder than your heart, adapting your biology to a fractal timeline of viscous systems.

Discovery, or uncovering, has to do with what already exists actually or virtually; it is therefore certain to happen sooner or later with enough sweat in the club. And as Kern Volume 4 attests to, DJ Stingray has the access codes and the stealth sense to make a place of a space, and to let it fall into time.

Accompanying the mix is a double vinyl. The leading manoeuvre comes from the collaborative efforts of DJ Stingray and Heinrich Mueller under an exclusive NRSB-11 piece. Seven more key titles of the covert assault make up this vinyl edition.

















[Q] 17 | Faceless Mind - Ocean Movers (Vcs2600 Science Remix)

Planet Rhythm is steadily working its way towards a respectable 70 releases. During the last couple of years the label has brought some of the best underground techno and the future is still pretty bright.
Again its time for the Spanish connection in the form of Exium! These guys are known for their extremely well crafted work on Nheoma and Audio Assault. This is no exception, deep spaced out techno that works perfect on the dance floor.
Audio Assault label boss Bas Mooy has shown to be a talented producer over the last few years. The man from Rotterdam has stayed true to the darker sound of pure techno. This stuff is the result of the fact that Bas was born and raised in one of the worlds most technoid cities - molten metal and gallons of raw oil seem to be pumping thru this mans blood vessels..!

Surprising tracks daring some surprises, adding kicks in the middle of the tunes.... But first comes the melody:) well done ! With a pinch of electro:) for more fun !

Umek reprises his Zeta Reticula moniker for a welcome return to Billy Nasty's Electrix label with an innovative EP comprised of 4 new tracks, split between the two spheres of Electro and Techno.

The Slovenian-born DJ and producer should need no introduction, boasting more than two decades of experience, playing the world over, producing music for labels like Toolroom, Spinnin', Great Stuff, Intec or his own imprint, 1605 to name just a few, or presenting his hugely popular weekly radio show, Behind the Iron Curtain.

It's been some time since a Zeta Reticula release on Electrix, with 'EP 1' to 'EP 4' surfacing on the label between 2000 and 2003, although Umek has continued the project more recently with tracks on 1605.

The A-Side of 'EP 5' delivers some Electro flavour, opening with the serious Electro-funk of 'Electric Blood Complete', before the vintage sci-fi electronics and playful rave stabs of 'Euphonious'.

Over on the B-Side the Techno takes over with the deep and dub-drenched 'Encroach' followed by the tough Housey grooves of 'Radiate' to complete this bold package.

Der britische Ausnahmeproduzent Darren 'Daz' Cunningham, besser bekannt als Actress oder neuerdings AZD (Acid ausgesprochen), ist mit einem neuen Album auf Ninja Tune zurück! Spätestens seit seinem 2014 veröffentlichten Album 'Ghettoville' welches auf dem von ihm mitbegründeten Ninja Tune Sublabel Werkdiscs erschien wird er als einer der größten Innovatoren elektronischer Musik gehandelt. Das Album vereint Komplexität spielend mit Eleganz und verschmelzt zusammenhanglose Wortkonstruktionen und elektronische Klangwelten mit Hilfe neuester 'Ghetto Cut Up' Technologie.

Dark Entries is honored to release 'Dualism', the sophomore E.P. from contemporary Montreal-based duo, Solitary Dancer. They released an eponymously titled debut E.P. on Midland's label Graded in late 2016 after their track

Echoe returns for its first outing of 2017 and fifth release since starting in earnest last year. ECHOE005 marks the first remix package in the label's discography, offering up four stellar remixes of Francesca Lombardo's "Remembrance" song. A clear stand-out in the label boss's inimitable repertoire, "Remembrance" has been given the rework treatment by house and techno stalwarts: Cassy, Laura Jones, Jade and La Fleur.

Cassy offers up the first remix, focussing her reinterpretation around an enormous and insistent bassline, murky and dense in equal measure, that rolls from start to finish. Undulating hats inject further energy, doubling in pace strategically whilst complimenting the 4/4 groove. Utilising the originals' emotional resonance, Cassy creates soft textures and refined arpeggiated patterns, adding a further dimension to the track's impassioned narrative.

Laura Jones's remix comes in the form of a low-slung, jazzy drum work-out, adorned with sub-heavy kicks and a snarling low-end that offers much of the track's sonic weight. Gentle bell-like keys float alongside modulated synth stabs that filter in and out of focus, whilst Jones's drum programming becomes progressively more and more frenetic.

Jade's reimagining sees a broken beat take the reigns, leaving space for soft percussive rhythms and an earth shaking low-end that pushes the song into ghetto house territory. Hi-hat pick-ups and jittery vocal cuts provide further momentum before the groove lands on sturdy 4/4 terrain. Jade's deftly arranged breakdowns, punctuated by panned drum fills and granular FX, adds welcome tension to the track, making a return to rolling drum-patterns and buzzing bass-sequences all the more rewarding as they come back in.

The final remix comes courtesy of La Fleur who delivers the most peak-time, club focussed material on the package. Staying true to the original's hook, La Fleur brings melody to the fore, whilst deploying snappy drums alongside chilling atmospherics and tech heavy stabs, set to keep dancers moving into early hours and beyond.

Suction Records presents a new split-12-inch by label alumnus June and Lowfish - 'C.D.S.N.' (suction038) is 4 tracks of classic Suction-style melodic analog electro. 300 copies on ORANGE vinyl. Berlin's June first appeared on Suction Records with his 2015 debut album of wave-inspired electro, 'Dominion.' Here, June opens the 12' with 'Cynthia 84,' a a lush, beatless Tangerine Dream-scape, thick with analog arpeggiations and gorgeous melodies. 'Navigation' closes proceedings with a driving, dark electro/wave dance track. Toronto's Lowfish co-founded Suction Records in 1997, and has been a staple of the label ever since. Lowfish appearances have been few and far between in recent years, but he's returned here in finest form. 'Dead Specimen' is clinical and pounding electro, while side B's opener 'Scarborough Brutalist" is a prime example of Lowfish's patented melodic electro style, with catchy, melancholy analog melodies cascading over slow but slamming 808 beats.

More multi artist comp action from Dublin's Jheri Tracks. Limited runs again, so pre-orders are advised..

Manchester native Alex Coulton has nurtured a reputation for creating sub-heavy rollers thanks to 12's for the likes of Black Acre, Livity Sound and Bloc. With Gamma Ray Burst, the next in his series of releases on London low-end specialists Tempa, Coulton consolidates his sound to deliver some of the most sparse, rhythmic work of his career.

With the record's title track, Coulton weaves from hard-hitting kicks, through to dizzying tribal polyrhythms the whole time maintaining a minimal, space driven atmosphere that remains omnipresent throughout the track's most intense moments. 'Ground Zero' revels in its spaciousness, allowing reverb to flood into the negative space between flashes of heavyweight techno percussion and saturated ripples of synth while the pulsating kicks that underpin 'Alpha Decay' are punctuated with bleak, discordant bells, rhythmic bass hits and hypnotic filtered percussion.

Showing his diverse abilities, 'Phase Two' is an exercise in measured restraint, as a cacophony of clicks and hisses come together to disorientate before forming a driving rhythm section before Coulton maximises his expansive elements on the fog-tinged 'Ascent'.

Closing with the steady flowing, brighter-hued melodic work of 'Distant Resonance', Alex Coulton has created a masterful collection of experimental tech-focused electronica that bewilders, intrigues and will draw the listener in with each play.

Constant Variables returns with the debut four tracker by new Berlin-based project Ecotone. On "Close To Phobia" he embarks on four journeys of pummeling and trippy techno full of swirling synth lines, out-there sequences and rough (break)beats, all perfectly balanced with a cinematic sense of post-industrial drama. Soon to light up a Warehouse party near you ...

Finnish techno icon Mono Junk aka Kim Rapatti joins forces with Berlin based Freestyle Man aka Klas Sasse Lindblad, known for his productions on classic labels like Sähkö and Moodmusic.
PATA EP starts with the hard hitting techno title 'Not A Love Story', haunting vocals, simple synthline, slicing percussion and deep bassdrum, all u need to make an effect, this must be heard in a big sound system. Following with 'Need Your Lovin' the EP takes a more electro approach, mesmerising love story with Jupiter-8 bassline and 808 beats accompanied with vocals on this track too by Mr Rapatti.
The EP ends with 'Stella Polaris', a production which started as a jam in 2007 in Berlin at Sasse's Blackhead Studios and was finished 10 years later in 2017 in the same location. Reminiscing of early 90s electronica time when everything was pure and gold and when these fellows also were starting their careers. 'Stella Polaris' leaves no one cold with emotional themes of analog synthesis and depth of the bass.
PATA EP is out 15.5.2017 on DUM Records (DUM039) on 12' vinyl. DUM Records selected catalogue is also available in digital form in your favourite download shop.

Ygrok brings a long-awaited fourth release to its catalog. René Audiard's Sakhalin' takes things a step away from traditional club music.
The A side, Vox Out' opens with the skeleton of a rhythm. Scattered tom drums and barely detectable whirs, fading and reeling in the background. When the distorted voices begin their story behind a hissing, grinding off-shaker, you know this will not be your traditional club track. A story develops. The barest hint of a shuffling beat, a subtle reminder of Soren's previous work, pins down the journey into the darkest psychic territory. The title track Sakhalin steps even further into darkness. Crackling electrics and disjointed atmospheres change at a glacial pace over a submerged hydraulic beat. Sakhalin Audiard experimental territory.

Further unreleased jams from the great TLT. BIG TIP!
You can trail away with it. It is easy to enter, but hard to drop out. Tolouse Low Trax just needs an MPC, a small Synthesizer set up and some effects to create subliminal hypnotic music trips, driven by dark synthlines and drunken shuffled patterns. The primitiveness in my music is linked to something simple, and that don't have to be obligatory minimal. For me it is enough to dance rough around the core. Music you don't shape till the end contains of a moment of beauty. A veil of secrecy. I work very simply. I rather reduce my possibilities in ompass. Limitations offer lots of liberties.' He reveals about his work ethic. Even if his music sounds darker then any ever experienced night, he mostly produces it in the morning in his highly inspirational studio home. During the dark times of the day Tolouse Low Trax mostly performs live around the globe. Or hangs out in his second home: the Salon Des Amateurs club bar in Dusseldorf, which he once founded and where he held until today two weekly DJ residencies. The moments and atmospheres he inhales during these lightless moments are mirrored in his shadowy music, about which he also confesses: My art is more a cinematic, literally idea of a large to explore Megacity. This is one of the pictures I would link to my music.' On ' part one he now offers five sounding visions about that Megacity'. They listen to mysterious names like Hidden Flat' or Studies in Drama'. They are nervous. They have ephemeral pieces of dub, Industrial, wave or Italian library music. And at times strangealienated voice samples dance within his highly addictive arrangements. Words can't express their magic. But one thing is fore sure: his hypnotic dance-not-dance tracks do not only illuminate so-called freaks!

Acid Tehcno and acid Breakz of all kind, from electro to breakcore, the whole thing with a pinch of Noize and very very fex reverbs... Dry thing in the free form of Drop bass Network and sutch kind of things... BRUTAL !

Tom Hang is the solo electronic work of Lobster Theremin label owner Jimmy Asquith. Despite being ridiculously busy either quaking dancefloors across the globe and flowing into the world a continuous catalogue of acclaimed electronic heat, Jimmy has found time to follow up his 'Tidy Bedroom Versions' release with more original tracks from the heavily dusted harddrive.
The record opens with 'The New World', where there is no space for preparation or adaptation; instead we are plunged straight into a fast evolving, rapid fire other. Despite this disorientating descent it doesn't take ears and minds long to nestle within the groove and across the tracks seven minutes we settle into the escapism of Hang's bodily mantra and slowly lose ourselves to this new world.
'Chronic Delirium' strides into focus with an exploratory intent, evoking images of a lone body battling a windswept lonely planet. There is an overwhelming sense of anticipation within the tracks pulse, and a dizzying excitement within Hang's ever shifting percussive experiments to create this state of musical delirium. This is perhaps the moment of realisation that within this new world there is a crossroads signing towards potential encroaching solitude and despair, or a leap of faith towards seeking comfort within embracing that which is completely unknown.
The record closes with the mammoth 'In the Deep'. Across the twelve shifting minutes Hang continues this idea of the human relationship with new zones and new experience, but here Hang seems to convey the idea that the struggle is over, there is no further bodily or mental resistance to change, dystopia has captured the spirit and embrace is the only option when you're in this deep. Buzz saw synth attacks collide with gloriously subtle yet uplifting old school bubbling melodies before the deepest techno pulse imaginable swings eyes instantly back to the floor.
'The New World' is a sphere where pummelling Techno burners teeter on the edge of freedom before winding and convulsing themselves into varying mutant zones that straddle the lines between experimental statement and tightly locked grooves to create a record of pure dystopian dancefloor heat. There is an odd and refreshing unity here within the strict, bare, functional, consuming percussion and the heady, playful, and freeform nature of Hang's melodic grip.

The eleventh Modal Analysis release introduces Umwelt, with his debut appearance on the label. Density EP is a 4 track release blending Umwelt's unique style which is a perfect fit with the Modal Analysis aesthetic. Industrial meets electro here, and the Lyon based producer joins the sound of Athens. Density #1 fully reflects Umwelts skills on enigmatic riffs and fat bass-lines. Density #2 and Density #3 sneak into the more dance-floor minded record bags, while Density#4 feeds a melodic/melancholic feeling whilst hard hitting beats bring it home.